26th Australasian Finance & Banking Conference

Institution Institute of Global Finance and School of Banking & Finance at the Australian School of Business, UNSW

Event Type Call for Paper

Date December 17, 2013 -
December 19, 2013

Venue Shangri-La Hotel

Location Sydney

Details

The Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, will converge in Sydney in December 2013. This conference provides international academics and industry with the opportunity to meet and share their research and interest in finance related fields. The conference would like to invite all academics and practitioners to participate. The conference is the most prestigious finance conference in the Asia-Pacific region, and brings together the world's foremost leaders of thought from the financial community. JOURNAL OF BANKING & FINANCE A special issue of the Journal of Banking and Finance on "Innovation, Governance, Global Financial Stability and Systemic Risk" will include selected papers presented at the 26th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference. Authors who are pre-selected will be notified of the appropriate procedure for inclusion. PRIZES BlackRock Research Award AUD$10,000 will be awarded for the best paper presented on Capital Markets/Funds Management/Mutual Funds. SIRCA Research Prize AUD$5,000 will be awarded for the best paper which has used SIRCA Data (this includes ASX intraday tick data and regulatory disclosures, and Thomson Reuters intraday tick data and news). Please note that the use of SIRCA data must be acknowledged in the paper. Further details about Sirca's data sources are available at www.sirca.org.au BankScope Prize AUD$2,500 will be awarded for the best paper in Banking. Authors whose institutions subscribe to BankScope data are eligible. Zephyr Prize AUD$2,500 will be awarded for the best Corporate Finance paper. To be eligible for the award the university you attend will have to subscribe to the global M&A deal database, Zephyr by Bureau van Dijk. Australian Securities Exchange Prize Awarded for the best paper presented on derivatives/quantitative finance. Further information (including call for papers document) on website.